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Trinidad and Tobago will host one of three Concacaf qualifying groups for the Morocco 2025 Fifa Women’s Under-17 World Cup from 31 March to 6 April as 12 teams compete for four World Cup spots.
The young Women Soca Warriors are grouped with the formidable United States, El Salvador and Honduras in Group C, while Group B comprises Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama and Nicaragua and Mexico, Haiti, Costa Rica and Bermuda are in Group A.
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The three group winners and the best second-placed finisher will go on to Morocco.
Trinidad and Tobago both advanced to the final qualifying round as the best second place teams from the earlier phase, as coach Ayana Russell’s team finished behind Honduras.
The National Under-17s now have the chance to avenge their 1-0 loss to Honduras in a tense qualifier at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva on 31 January 2025.
If the Women Warriors can also defeat El Salvador and keep a respectable scoreline against USA, they would have a shot at joining the North American juggernauts at the Under-17 World Cup.
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Trinidad and Tobago has never qualified to a Fifa Women’s tournament, although the two-island republic participated as hosts of the 2010 Fifa Women’s U-17 World Cup.
The Women Warriors, led by full back Kanika Rodriguez, will get an early test of their aspirations as they face USA on match day one from 7pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium on Monday 31 March.
Rodriguez and company will then tackle El Salvador and Honduras at the same time on 2 and 5 April respectively.
The final Concacaf Women’s U-17 Qualifiers are the fifth confederation competition hosted in Trinidad and Tobago in less than 15 months.
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Trinidad and Tobago also held the 2024 Concacaf Men’s U-20 Qualifiers, League B of the 2024 Concacaf Girls Under-15 Championships and the preliminary rounds of the 2025 Concacaf Women’s U-17 and U-20 tournaments.
The CFU Boys U-14 series was also staged in Tobago last August, while Trinidad also hosted a women’s Jewels of the Caribbean U-20 competition in December.
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